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Book review: Chris Turner drills down for nuance in new study of tar sands December 29, 2017 - 8:38 PM

The Patch: The People, Pipelines and Politics of the Oil Sands Chris Turner | Simon & Shuster $34.99, 340 pages With global warming records being broken regularly these days, 2017 is on track to be yet another year of record-setting heat, and with disturbing signs of human-caused climate change like ferocious storms, rising oceans, disintegrating […]
International: 20 bestselling books of the week, Dec. 30 December 29, 2017 - 8:01 PM

Bestselling international books of the week.
Globe-trotting Calgary native Austin Andrews captures the 'weird, wonderful and whimsical' of distant lands in new book of photography December 29, 2017 - 5:50 PM

In the past decade, Calgary-born photographer Austin Andrews has travelled to areas that are generally considered to be among the more dangerous places on earth. He has photographed the military in Kabul and Kandahar. He was in Myanmar when it was still ruled by the military junta. He was in South Africa when anti-immigrant riots […]
The Life and Art of Arthur Pitts shines light on unheralded Vancouver artist December 28, 2017 - 8:00 PM

Have you ever heard of artist Arthur Pitts? Probably not, and that’s too bad. But thanks to author and art historian Kerry Mason, you can learn about the English transplant to Vancouver Island who recorded the lives of B.C. and Alaskan Indigenous people and their cultures through paintings, sketches and photos. Mason’s The Life and […]
A year between covers: what Montreal's writers have been reading December 28, 2017 - 5:16 PM

We asked an assortment of Montreal literati to name their favourite reading experience of 2017.
Memorable story: Feeling inspired by Saskatoon writers December 28, 2017 - 12:00 PM

I learned a lot from those six writers this year, about their courage, determination, curiosity and eloquence.
Conversations with Lee Maracle will make the reader think December 27, 2017 - 7:00 PM

My Conversations with Canadians Lee Maracle | Book Thug Publishers $20, 170 pages Don’t call them Indians. They have their own distinct nations, languages and identities that do not depend on Columbus’s confusion. They are the descendants of this continent’s first peoples, the remnants of a much larger pre-contact population, survivors of both the military […]
Paul Muldoon is one of those Irish writers who appears every generation to refresh the English language December 27, 2017 - 5:53 PM

'Both Irish and original'
More photography books that capture the great (and occasionally not-so-great) outdoors December 23, 2017 - 1:30 PM

On the Road with Mike Drew, Mike Drew (256 pages, $40, Rocky Mountain Books) A longtime photographer for Postmedia, Mike Drew compiles some of his most compelling images captured over the past 30 years travelling the back roads of southern Alberta, Saskatchewan, B.C. and Montana. Drew, whose photo column appears weekends in the Calgary Sun, captures […]
Wild lens: Book celebrates photographer John E. Marriott's lengthy career capturing bears, wolves in the wilderness December 23, 2017 - 1:06 PM

John E. Marriott has been visiting the Canadian Rockies in Alberta for longer than he can remember. In fact, there is a picture of him as a month-old baby at the Columbia Icefields with his mother. But the first trip he does remember was as a six-year-old. It was the summer of 1975, not long […]
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JONESIE: You're barking up the wrong end of the pipeline

OPINION When I was a kid growing up, it seemed like the concept of litter wasn’t fully understood. We’d hit the Tas-T-Mill for a pizza pop or the Five & Dime for snacks and it wasn’t even a consideration to b

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